The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-26
OUR GIRLS"

Iue QueStiOu is DcluS COuStdHtil
asked "what shall be done with oul
girls p How shall they be fitted fol
the future, how shall they be educate
that they may keep step with, MOI
alone the progress of the age, but also
with their male competitors in the
ranks by which bread and butter is VOL
and the wolf of want driven from the
door? 1t is true, that the necessity
for this question is being rapidly dis
sipated and the answer is found in the
great army of female toilers who are
now found in all the professions and
IL almost every branch of labor.
Day by day the ranks are increas
ing in this respect, our girls tskein G
rank which no otherc ountry furnishes.
But putting aside this class who as
a rule are honest and less liable to err
than most of their sisters
there is still another null
tiple of s'our girls" who
badly need looking after and this is
the class whose parents are fairly well
TODD and have given their daughters
advantages which would make
hereunder proper care-orna-
ments to the home and social
circle. This class of girls
are to be found, as a rule, where
Comforting the sick, caring for the
aged, relieving their mothers of the
burthen of care, which has sown the
silver thread amid locks that once
we're bonny brown or golden, improv-
ing themselves IN those little dainty
arts which insure home happiness
Not at all, but they may be found
dressed in the height of fashion,
gayly, sometimes wantonly. prom.
enading the streets, ogling not boys
alone, but men whose records are per.
haps black with crime, but who, in
the sight of these feolhardy and mex.
perienced girls, are "lovely," and
generally conducting themselves in a
manner that is sad indeed, because
the seed thus sown is bound to bear
bitter fruit, which no repentance can
make sweet.
And who, may it be asked, is to
blame for thus? Certainly it is the
parents. What business has the
father to lose himself in trade, or the
laying up of a competence to such an
extent that he forgets his solemn OBJ
legation to his daughter, as well as the
SON? 1t is the common plan for the
father to relegate to the mother
the complete and entire train
ing of the daughter, aud in
most cases this works well
because the mother who is worthy of
the name, looks after the spiritual as
well as the temporal needs of her
daughter and thus fits her for her place
as q builder or founder of nure
christian home.
But at the risk of pulling the tenn
pie about our ears, there is no ques-
ton, if results are the measure by
which these things are judged, the
mother often fails in carrying out the
plan of the father, and the daughters
vanity is encouraged from the time
she is in short clothes to the time
when she is full fedged young lady
and is able to disobey her mother and
fout her to her very face. Everything
that can make the daughter appear
well in society is lavished on her
and the mother often sacrifices herself
in an effort to have her daughter ap-
pear in surroundings which do not
belong to her rank in life. Does
any one suppose then, that the father
should have no control over his
daughter? Who knows better than
he, the danger of street notoriety,
whs understands better than he, how